On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Michael Foord <mfo...@python.org> wrote: >>> One possibility would be to use PyPy, with its new C extension support, >>> to >>> get sandboxing. >>> >> >> intriguing idea. what's the purpose - make it possible to run >> python2.4 code on a modern system? >> > > Python 2.4 still runs fine on all modern systems as far as I know.
yes. > My > suggestion was to enable running Python applets in the browser without > security problems. Python applets was part of the point of grail ahh. right. ok. interesting. ok, well the purpose i have in mind for it is actually _as_ a platform-independent web browser, without having to have a whopping 30mb download of c/c++ and having to also compile python bindings to whatever web engine... basically i want access to W3C DOM functions (the ones that people normally confuse as being solely and exclusively tied to javascript) from python. but enough about that - the idea of getting grailbrowser up-and-running again i think people would find insane/amusing enough to try to get it going again. searches for "grailbrowser" show loads of people trying and failing to get it to work, so there is definitely interest out there. > and the > rexec module in Python was created for this purpose; but rexec was > hopelessly flawed (there were always ways to break out of the sandbox) and > was deprecated. yes - i was disappointed about that when it happened: i had a project which relied on it. rexec, regardless of the "breakage", actually had other benefits, most notably demonstrated by overloading import to allow scripts to be loaded out of sql databases rather than off the filesystem, on-demand. whether sandboxing was broken or not was completely irrelevant, as far as the overriding / sub-classing of rexec was concerned. by adding in that exception "go to hell in a handbasket!" right at the beginning of the rexec module i basically had to either take a copy of rexec.py and remove that one line (and then maintain that copy, forever), or can the project. l. _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2010 - Birmingham, 17-24 July 2010 - http://www.europython2010.eu EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
